Consequences of Some Categorially-Motivated Phonological Assumptions

Most of the recent work within the broadly defined framework of ‘Categorial Grammar’ has focused on problems relating to the syntax and semantics of natural languages. In this paper, I will address the question of what a phonological component would be like which is compatible with the basic tenets of categorial theories. That is, I will make the assumption that the phonological component is categorial in nature and then examine some of the consequences. As a case study, I will focus on the analysis of final devoicing and voicing assimilation in Russian.